Privacy Policy

Effective Date of Current Privacy Policy:  February 1, 2016

This Privacy Policy describes the personally identifiable information that IPLA, LLP (“IPLA,” “we,” or “us”) collects in the United States through our website located at www.ipla.com (the “Site”) and how we use that information. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies solely to our online information-gathering and dissemination practices in connection with the Site, and does not apply to any of our practices conducted offline or outside of the US. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or our practices regarding your personally identifiable information, please contact us at [email protected].

Information Collected

IPLA collects two types of information about users of our Site:

(1) Personally identifiable information:
In general, you do not have to provide us with your personally identifiable information to use this Site. However, certain services to which you may subscribe through this Site may require you to provide personally identifiable information, such as your name, physical address, and email address. We use such personally identifiable information to respond to your inquiries and to send you information that you request. You may also receive other mailings relating to IPLA’s seminars or events that we think may be of interest to you. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive mailings from us, please refer to the paragraph below entitled “Removal/Opt Out Procedures.”

If you contact us by email through the Site, we may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and we reserve the right to use your email address, and any information that you provide to us in your message, to respond thereto. In addition, we may send by email important administrative information regarding the Site or services to users who have provided us with their email addresses; because this information may be important to your use of the Site, it is not possible to “opt out” of receiving these emails.

The Site is not directed to children under thirteen (13) years of age and IPLA does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from such children. If you are younger than thirteen, please do not provide any personally identifiable information while using the Site.

(2) Non-personally identifiable information:
We may use cookies to collect non-personally identifiable information in connection with the Site. Our web pages may incorporate “pixel tags”, “web beacons”, or similar tracking technologies (collectively, “pixel tags”) that allow us or our agents to track the actions of users of our Site. Pixel tags are used to collect non-personally identifiable information, such as the name of your internet service provider, the IP address of the computer you are using, the type of browser software and operating system that you use, the date and time you access our Site, the website address, if any, from which you linked directly to our Site, the website address, if any, to which you travel from our Site, and other similar traffic-related information. We may also aggregate your information with similar data collected from other users to help us improve our Site and the services that we provide through our Site. We do not use such data in any way to create or maintain a personal profile of you or collect personally identifiable information from you.

Use of Information Collected

We will not disclose personally identifiable information that we collect through your use of the Site to unaffiliated third parties. We reserve the right, however, to provide such information to our employees, contractors, and agents to the extent necessary to enable them to perform certain Site-related services (e.g., web hosting, improve Site-related services and features, or maintenance services) on our behalf. We also reserve the right to disclose such information to any third party if we believe that we are required to do so for any or all of the following reasons: (i) by law; (ii) to comply with legal processes or governmental requests; (iii) to prevent, investigate, detect, or prosecute criminal offenses or attacks on the technical integrity of the Site or our network; and/or (iv) to protect the rights, property, or safety of IPLA and its affiliates, their partners, and employees, the users of the Site, or the public.

Removal/Opt Out Procedures

If you no longer wish to receive materials from us or want your personal information removed from IPLA’s database, please contact us at [email protected]. Alternatively, when you receive materials from us by email or other forms of communication, you can make use of the “opt out” provision in such communications so that we know you no longer wish to receive such materials from us.

Security Procedures

IPLA seeks to adopt commercially reasonable security measures consistent with legal industry practice to assist in protecting against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personally identifiable information which is under our control. Unfortunately, no security system, or system of transmitting data over the Internet, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result of the foregoing, while we undertake commercially reasonable efforts to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee the security of our servers, the means by which information is transmitted between your computer and IPLA’s servers, or any information provided to us or to any third party through or in connection with the Site. You provide all such information entirely at your own risk.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve our right to update and revise this Privacy Policy at any time. You can determine if this Privacy Policy has been revised since your last visit by referring to the “Effective Date of Current Privacy Policy” date at the top of this page. Your use of our Site constitutes your acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy as amended or revised by us, and you should therefore review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of its terms.

Assignments

IPLA reserves the right to assign any and all information that we collect from users, or that we otherwise collect in connection with the Site, including, without limitation, to unaffiliated third parties or third parties (i.e., another law firm), in the event of a sale or transfer of assets or of any portion of our business.

Links to Other Sites

Our Site contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not and cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites and that this Privacy Policy applies solely to the information which we collect through this Site. We encourage you to ensure that you read the privacy statements of all the destination websites which you visit.